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Yeah very surprised Arkansas is out. duke/oklahoma has started now, Duke out ahead early. Looks like another Sun Belt team Louisiana is poised to take out Texas, ahead by 5 runs in the 8th.
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WVU is in the Tucson region final. The loser's bracket game is DBU and GCU, which is 10-10 in the 8th.
If WVU can avoid losing 2 straight to whoever comes out of this it would be the first super regional in school history in coach Randy Mazey's last year. |
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#153 |
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Sadly the Coach Gilmore era at Coastal ends as he heads into retirement after Coastal never led against clemson.
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#154 |
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GT far far exceeds my expectations by winning a couple games, before bowing to UGA by blowing a 5-2 lead over the final two innings and losing in extras.
Tennessee on the other hand made surprisingly short work of their regional, closing it out on Sunday.
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Good question. Unfortunately we will never know. I guess it is not the cruelest ending if only because it is not in the title game but damn this is pretty cruel. Birmingham-Southern's run ends in D-III WS after school's closing - ESPN
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#156 |
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UNC/LSU was a great game that was, unfortunately, decided by a dropped flyball in the top of the 10th.
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I was surprised over the weekend by how many games - especially in extra innings - seemed to be influenced by HBPs, especially leadoff ones.
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#158 | |
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I'm guessing if they had won it all, someone would have filed a lawsuit challenging their right to hold the title since the school they represented became defunct and being a college-affiliated team is the only reason they were allowed into the tournament to begin with. That would be the American way, right?
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I didn't realize that one of Birm-Southern's pitchers was the grandson of Dave LaRoche/son of Adam LaRoche
LaRoche family reflects on the game as it is soaking in D-III College World Series – News-Herald
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Yeah, Adam famously retired about a decade ago because the White Sox wouldn't allow his son in the clubhouse, as I recall. Now that son was a pitcher on the B-S team.
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Here is a retrospective article about it from a few years ago. I hadn't heard about it at the time, but remember reading this. LaRoche retired and surrendered $13M contract and Adam Eaton said "We have lost a leader in Drake."
‘It was kind of nuts’: 5 years later, former White Sox reflect on the Adam LaRoche saga - The Athletic I thought it was a NY Times article, but it is behind the Athletic paywall. Some gems: Quote:
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OU softball ain't ready to leave Oklahoma City just yet.
I'm still not used to taking a quick glance at the TV, seeing the pitcher is on 130+ pitches and not wondering when the manager is going to go to the pen. ![]()
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The final 3 teams for me is like trying to decide who to root for in CFB between Ohio State, Alabama, and Florida. There are no winners.
Sydney Berzon of LSU threw 14 innings and 208 pitches in the SEC tournament.
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Oklahoma winning yet again was inevitable. Kinda sucks, TBH.
The craziest thing about it, though, is they beat their biggest rival with a #1 pitcher who transferred from their in-state rival. That's be like FSU beating Miami to win the CFB championship with Tim Tebow at QB. I can't imagine a better set-up to winning a championship and shoving it in your rivals' noses.
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Yeah, and that's unwarranted too. A couple of the SEC teams didn't deserve it. UK was one. Just means more (to ESPN)!
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#167 | |
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You mean the Kentucky that the coaches poll had as #28 in their ranking going into the post-season? A poll that has one voting member from each of 32 conference, I guess they've been bought off too or something. Or maybe the computer was bought off, the RPI had them at #34 in the end. I don't give much fucks about softball frankly, but this sort of whining just makes people look silly.
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It's all horseshit. They weren't a good team. The RPI game rewards teams for conference strength by boosting them just for playing their conference schedule. You highly rate all teams and your RPI stays high because of it. Meanwhile, you lose nearly all of those games. Hmm. At some point, it should be clear that the 12th/13th best teams in any conference do not deserve to play in the post-season.
It isn't whining. I don't have a team I wanted to get it. I actually support UK, have for years. But this year's team was mediocre and not deserving of a spot. I don't really care what the circle jerk effects of RPI or coach's polls suggested. Even a school like USC which got into the tournament knows they sucked - they just fired Bev Smith. It'll be interesting to see how far down they go next year with bids with 2 auto-bids entering the conference.
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I had the same feeling about Ole Miss softball (and several others elsewhere tbh) BUT ... if you gotta fill a 64 team bracket, they have to come from somewhere. And given the hot start UK had, the two wins over Stanford most notably, I don't see any issue with them in the field. 2-2 vs ranked outside the conference, 23-8 non-con overall, that's a no-brainer to be in the field given the conference schedule otherwise. Parity just isn't a thing in that sport at this point (really never has been), before it was SEC-dominant, it was Pac10 dominant. Even 32 viable teams in the tournament is probably pushing it frankly. You don't really need to be very good to make it in.
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I don't disagree, but this goes back to my general philosophy of inclusion since we have not yet formally separated the power conferences from the rest. I'd love to make the SEC conference schedule mean something more than just a fight for hosting regionals/super-regionals. For instance, I'd be all for a rule that says unless you win your conference tournament, no team is eligible that finished in the bottom quarter of its regular season conference standings.
I don't doubt you'd knock out some "good" teams (relatively speaking), but it would make the regular season conference play mean something. It's embarrassing frankly that UK, Auburn and USC were 2 seeds with conference records of 8-16 or 9-15. That's why I think RPI is more of a system to be gamed than anything. Just playing conference, they all get a huge boost in RPI. And yes they schedule tough (or should) early on, but at that point winning those games doesn't matter as much as just playing them (unless you're fighting for a hosting slot, and even then the committee can find a reason to bump a team up or down). When a team cancels a late-season game against a #1 seed mid-major because even a win will hurt their RPI, that's not good for the game and shows you it's more about someone running numbers than just playing ball. And if we're not going to make a power conference-only tournament, there's 300+ teams competing for the same thing. I'd reward more of them at the expense of more talented teams who couldn't beat their equals.
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Yeah, that's a pretty much a complete philosophical difference between us that we aren't realistically going to bridge.
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I get it. But I think gifting more talented teams automatic bids not just to their own tournament but the NCAA tournament is ridiculous. If you want to be one of the big boys and enjoy those benefits, you should suffer if you are one of the worst of the best, as it were.
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Clemson's CF just made as good of a catch as you'll ever see to save their season in the bottom of the 10th.
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Saw the replay-that was pretty special-and he almost misjudged/over ran it.
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#175 |
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UK wins thanks to a pitcher not covering home and goes 2B to home on a wild pitch. There's nothing worse than your season ending on a 10U mistake.
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He looked like he was just windowshopping in the mall or something. Just lazily strolling toward the plate without a care in the world. Hella headsup baserunning but that pitcher just made himself a cautionary instructional meme.
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He was completely clueless until the guy was 3/4s down the line and he saw him in his periphery.
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Your comparison to 10U is more appropriate for me. In my head he only reacts to the runner because a coach's veins are bulging out of his head screaming at him to cover the plate. Has there been an official explanation for the ejections in the Clemson v Florida game? The announcers said Crighton was ejected for leaving his position but his position at the time was a baserunner and the out on the play ended the inning. He ran towards the skirmish but also the skirmish was in front of Clemson's dugout. Now I am reading that the ejection was for unsportsmanlike conduct which seems harsh to single him out when both teams were being very unsportsmanlike. Then the two Clemson coaches were tossed I guess because their player spiked the bat after hitting a home run?
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That game was wild and those ejections ridiculous.The first explanation was Crighton contacted an ump which makes more sense than the revised version, absent some detail like he made a racist or over the line derogatory comment (or specifically directed something at an ump which is the best explanation I can come up with given his reaction when he found out he was ejected).
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I saw a social media post from the Omaha police about having thrown out a couple of TX A&M fans during the UF game for heckling the UF bench about the death of their bat boy. Pretty awful. Looked like a father/son duo, not sure?
Anyway, that was bad enough. Then I read the backstory of the bat boy's death. It goes far beyond just him. And I swear, I don't recall hearing about this when it happened, but I feel like it was tragic enough that I would have run across it. In 2021, the bat boy was 14 and his younger brother was 11. Their parents we're going through a divorce or at least separated, and the dad had recently lost his job. The UF head coach was a friend of the family and had gotten the 14 year old to be the bat boy on numerous occasions for the baseball team. Now, "friend of family" appears to have included a relationship with the mom, although I don't know if that's confirmed or not. Either way, Dad killed the wife, 2 sons and himself - likely due to all the circumstances of his quickly crumbling life, if not directly because of this relationship. So THAT is the backstory. They were heckling the coach about being responsible for the bat boy's death. What POS. |
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Rex and Brody
There’s a baseball tournament in their honor we participated in a few years ago It was a terrible thing to have happened in the area so the two hecklers really are despicable Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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